Anand Kannan has a B.Tech degree from IIT, Madras, India, MSc(Engg) degree from IISc, Bangalore, India and PhD from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.He has worked with Nokia as part of its Research Center in Irving, Texas for several years. He also worked at Arraycomm Inc in San Jose, California during its start-up days. During his tenure in Nokia, he was involved in several projects in Wireless LAN research, GSM and CDMA radio technology, entry-level mobile application development and business model development for low-income markets.Anand's interests lie in economics, entrepreneurship, management, cognition, computing, communication technology, system development, digital signal processing, algorithm and architecture development.